Lord Clavell

Lord Clavell was a French nobleman and a member of the Privy Council during the mid-16th century. Clavell presided over a vast estate in the Loire Valley, and he was highly influential at court. In 1560, Queen Mother Catherine de Medici invited Clavell to the French court to seek his support during a vote for her regency once her son King Francis II of France died, offering her daughter Claude of Valois' hand in marriage to Clavell's son. However, Clavell complained about his accomodations at the court, as well as an incident years before where Catherine's carriage had run over his daughter's foot, causing a deformity which prevented her from marriage (she killed herself a year later after being rejected by another suitor).